Childhood in world history
By: Peter N. Stearns
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Themes in world history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780415598088; 9780415598095; 9780203839751
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : childhood in world history; title: Childhood in agricultural societies; title: Childhood in the classical civilizations; title: Childhood in postclassical world history : the impact of religious change; title: Contacts and contrasts in the postclassical world; title: Forces of change and the modern model of childhood : developments in the west, eighteenth century to 1914; title: Alongside the modern model : the pressures of colonialism; title: Modern childhood in Asia : Japan adapts the new model; title: Childhood and communist revolutions; title: Childhood in the affluent societies, twentieth and twenty-1st centuries; title: The dislocations in the twentieth and twenty-1st centuries : children face war and violence; title: Globalization and childhoods; title: The dilemma of children's happiness; title: Conclusion : childhoods from past toward future.